Sim not responding immediately task/action

I've been having this issue a lot with and without mods, and my sims stand around or sit a lot as well doing absolutely nothing. Currently playing in my no mods/no cc save, which has never had any mods or cc used in it but this is still an issue. The issue worsens in larger households I find, but is still present in single households too. 

This happens to me too! And sometimes the game auto-cancels some actions. Like for instance playing on the computer - can't do it without pressing the chair and choose the option "sit" and THEN pressing the computer. Really weird

i'm currently noticing this exact issue, no mods, fresh save file. i own all packs except for a few kits. lots of times the sim also don't do the action at all, it's queueing up and stays there for several in-game minutes/hours until the game cancels it by its own. the sim either stands around or it does other tasks, most of time i have to tell my sim two or three times to do the task for it to actually do the task. 

After I pause and unpause the game my Sims get frozen and even when I reset them they don't move and are stuck in place and I can't press anything. My game hasn't crashed because of it though. I'm on ps5.

The moment I downloaded the Cottage Living expansion Nov 26, 2025 the game began to do this. I could live, but then I bought the Garden to Table pack and it has not been the same since. I bought an external drive with a terabyte and unlimited internet thinking it was the issue, but it was not. Giving up because I want more gameplay and build items, I recently took advantage of the publisher deal and bought over $99 worth of expansion packs- Get Together, For Rent, Island Living, Snowy Escape, and City Living and now it has become UNBEARABLE! It takes forever to load, and now it takes about 3 real life minutes and several clicks of an object for the action/task menu to appear then when I click she does not move, sometimes staying stuck for Sim hours, while gameplay like phone calls etc are happening. Moving the camera/scrolling to a different view? Forget about it! No CC. No Mods. This was reported 9 months ago but it's still happening. 

Ever since the last update or since those free marketplace things dropped my sims literally can’t and won’t do anything. They may start an action I que up but it never finishes they just get stuck. Most of the time they don’t even start. I’ve tried resting, reloading, restarting, EVERYTHING. The game is literally unplayable now. 

I've been seeing this with infant care actions. The twins' hunger needs are low and getting lower, I've told their mother to help them explore foods in their high chairs, and she just stands there for several in-game minutes as her infants get more and more hungry. Canceling the actions and telling her what to do again didn't help. Finally, their father got home from work and fed one of the twins, and then their mother would feed the other.

It's tough enough to take care of infants (especially multiple infants) when the adults actually do the things they need to do. When the adults stand around doing nothing after you've told them what they need to do, it gets much harder.

Ever since the last patch, my sims will randomly stop responding to things I told them to do. This happens after I cancel something they were doing and tell them to do something else. Instead of doing what I told them, they just stand there indefinitely until I go until build/buy and reset them. I've also noticed that this happens almost always when one of the sim's needs is in the yellow or red range.

Yeah, I've been seeing that with Sims who have needs in the red. A really hungry Sim will stair at a plate of food but not eat it because their hunger puts them in a really bad mood. A really sleepy infant Sim will cry and fuss and ignore the parent's attempts to sooth the infant, refusing to go to sleep. (Hmm... on the other hand, that might be realistic for really sleepy infants...)